Prevent - University registers of research and 'firewalls' (corrects omission of full name in previous request)

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, City, University of London should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

(NOTE: This request is being made to correct the omission of my full name in a request which was made on October 15. The request is exactly the same. Please find my full name at the end of this message)

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please provide the following:

1. Your Prevent action plan or any document that outlines your institution’s Prevent policy in line with your obligations under the Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015

2. Confirm if students, researchers and members of staff are obliged to register research which is deemed to be security sensitive

3. If such a register exists, the number of entries for each of the years 2018 (up to the date of this request), 2017, 2016 and 2015. By entries, I mean occasions on which individuals have registered research which falls into the category set out in bullet point 2. If possible, please identify the nature of the research (eg PhD, internally funded, externally funded) and topic

4. If such a register exists, confirm whether or not it is stored onsite or on an external server.

5. If such a register exists, confirm whether the register is subject to any information sharing agreements with external partners or agencies including local and regional Prevent coordinators, the Home Office, the local Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit, the local police or any other law enforcement agencies

6. A list of any agreements, arrangements or Memorandums of Understanding between your institution and bodies such as the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), or Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) of the City of London Police, to receive lists of illegal or illicit content, for instance for the purposes of blocking.

7. Confirm if any filtering or blocking service that your institution uses incorporate lists from the IWF, CTIRU or PIPCU, and which lists are incorporated.

Yours faithfully,
Ben Quinn

FOI, City, University of London

Dear Ben Quinn,

Thank you for your request for information (see below) received on 25/10/2018.

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and will be answered within twenty working days.

Please contact me if you have any queries, quoting reference number 2018/244.

Yours Sincerely,

Saidu Sesay
Information Compliance Officer, Information Technology
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
T: +44 (0)20 7040 8224
www.city.ac.uk

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